Erin McKeown

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Marie Moreshead + Ellen Tipper at Blue, January 28

Music seen
The dual CD-release party for Ellen Tipper's The Juggler and Marie Moreshead's self-titled full-length album was a stripped-down affair, which was a relief because Blue was packed to the gills.
By JEFF INGLIS | February 02, 2011

Fall Music Preview: Stay positive

The local concert calendar is filled to capacity
The face of the local nightlife landscape undergoes a major change in the form of a renewal this autumn, as the State Theatre’s exhaustively maligned absence ends on October 15, with 10 fall concerts on their docket already. But that’s not the only new venue to look out for.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | September 15, 2010

Photos: Foo Fest 2010 at AS220

Foo Fest | AS220 | August 14, 2010
Foo Fest's slam poetry, music, and exhibits come to AS220 on August 14, 2010.
By KELLY PHILLIPS | August 16, 2010

Whole lotta Foo Fest going on!

The best plan: get there early, stay late
There's a little bit of everything in the music segment of AS220's annual Foo Fest — inventive folk, arty hip-hop, girl grooves, brass bands.
By JIM MACNIE | August 13, 2010

Confidence men (and women)

Spouse open up on their fifth full-length
For a slice of Portland and scattered folks throughout New England and beyond, Spouse are downright seminal indie rockers.
By SAM PFEIFLE | May 05, 2010

Getting to know Audrey Ryan

We know, we know
Though she's primarily Boston-based at this point, Audrey Ryan grew up on Mount Desert Island and he's clearly retained some of that rough-and-tumble independence streak.
By SAM PFEIFLE | January 13, 2010

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Erik Deutsch | Hush Money

Hammer and String
Having played in projects from jam bands to jazz and as a singer-songwriter accompanist, keyboardist Erik Deutsch led an acoustic jazz album for his debut.
By JON GARELICK | November 25, 2009

Erin McKeown | Hundreds of Lions

Righteous Babe (2009)
This local folkie has spent the past few years sifting through the ample riches of the Great American Songbook, first on 2006’s excellent Sing You Sinners , then on Lafayette , a spirited follow-up taped live at Joe’s Pub in New York.
By MIKAEL WOOD | October 21, 2009

Stars aligned

Cult heroes and superstars dot the region's fall concert calendar
The days are growing shorter, the magazines are (well, barely) getting larger and meatier, and the first batch of cider doughnuts is on the way real soon: all sure signs of autumn, as is the bountiful crop of prestigious concerts coming our way this season.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | September 16, 2009

Bounty

The best of the season’s roots, world, folk, and blues
It’s payback time for Boston’s blues and roots music scene.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | September 12, 2007

Erin McKeown: Lafayette

Signature Sounds
Give some of the credit to her crack back-up band, who move effortlessly between head-nodding hip-hop grooves and hopped-up big-band shuffles.
By MIKAEL WOOD | September 12, 2007

Sweet and Lowe down

Jews in Hell chronicles Portland’s ultimate outsider(s)
Quoting Lowe, Jews represent “a cult without a leader, freelance wise-asses without portfolio.” Who am I to argue?
By SAM PFEIFLE | August 15, 2007

To “Brooklyn” and back

Laurel Brauns travels (the East Coast) on Closed for the Season
Laurel Brauns shows it’s positively de rigueur to employ a harem of guest musicians in crafting an album that’s perfectly cohesive.
By SAM PFEIFLE | April 11, 2007

Renewing their vows

Spouse return after three years with Relocation Tactics
Life obviously isn’t fair.
By SAM PFEIFLE | April 04, 2007

Portland scene report: March 23, 2007

Sibilance starts now
Like we didn't know that already.
By PORTLAND MUSIC STAFF | March 21, 2007

Erin McKeown

Sing You Sinners | Nettwerk
With Madeleine Peyroux and Norah Jones as ingrained in the cultural fabric as cockroaches in an Allston student flat, there isn’t much refreshing about yet another pop singer’s taking a whack at a few pages in the Great American Songbook.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | January 16, 2007

Tie me up, tie me down

Melissa Ferrick takes stock
It’s always an inspiring moment when an artist goes independent, breaks from the major-label corporate structure, and joins the brave new world of DIY.
By BRETT MILANO | January 03, 2007

Indie springs forward

Clap your hands and say Axl
For years we waited. And then we started making jokes about it. And then the jokes got old. So we waited some more. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, "Love Song No. 7" (mp3)
By MATT ASHARE | January 02, 2007

Too many shows

A hot winter concert season
If this winter’s concert scene were a crazy tag-team wrestling match, rock would be the ass-kicking king of the ring.
By TED DROZDOWSKI | December 28, 2006

Heard ’round here

15 reasons to be cheerful
There were lots of great records to choose from, so I decided not to limit the list to 10 selections.
By BOB GULLA | December 20, 2006

Singin’ ’n’ swingin’

Erin McKeown embraces lightness and ‘easy-ness’
Since busting out of Providence on the heels of her educational stint at Brown, Erin McKeown has been in earnest pursuit of greatness.
By BOB GULLA | December 05, 2006

Catie Curtis

Long Night Moon | Compass
Known in and outside the Boston folk-music community for her accessible, socially conscious songwriting and gorgeous voice, Catie Curtis returns here with her typical mix of insightful wit and pitch-perfect vocals.
By SUE BELL | October 17, 2006

Local heroes

Mark Mulcahy, Alec K. Redfearn, and more
Alongside the Feelies, R.E.M., and the Replacements, Mark Mulcahy’s Miracle Legion was one of the most promising of the indie bands of the mid-’80s.
By BOB GULLA | May 30, 2006